On the difference between a river and a boundary. Impressions from the levee and speculations on a view from afar. 

The seemingly unwavering natural course of a river can be altered via engineering to serve as the legal boundary of territory—with far-reaching effects. While researching Timeslips, artists Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim returned to the same Mississippi site—a levee road in Missouri—twelve months after their first visit and encountered a series of restrictions engendered by such practices. Significant flooding had rendered the road inaccessible. The film Timeslips takes such scenarios and fast-forwards them into a speculative future, in which a scientist on Mars reflects back upon the injustices wrought by attempts to control water on Earth.